2068 Worried About the Tycoon
At the sa ti, after a simple handover following the battle at the airport, Tony received a ssage from Knight.
The information was on a Sokovian Intelligence colonel called Helmut Zemo.
He killed a psychiatrist and assud the dead man’s identity to approach Bucky, who had been detained at the ti.
The information also detailed the entire process from the mont he set off to putting on a fake mask of Bucky’s face and planting the explosives outside the United Nations conference hall.
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Finally, there were coordinates for a Hydra’s base in the North Pole which had been used to make Winter Soldiers.
Seeing that, Tony imdiately took off for the North Pole.
As he flew, he sent a communication request to Knight.
A mont later, the call connected, and Tony said, “You knew. Why didn’t you tell before?”
Luke said calmly, “Would it have prevented you from fighting?”
Tony opened his mouth, only to find that he had nothing to say.
The conflict among the Avengers this ti was rooted in their different ways of thinking. The pressure from the outside world had just been a catalyst.
The sa thing didn’t happen to the Bat Squad, because nobody in the team had ever wanted to deal with the governnt.
Looking at the tycoon’s aggrieved expression, Luke sighed. “If I had to take sides, everyone on my side would be on Steve’s side, so I didn’t appear.”
Tony was even more speechless.
The Sokovia Accords required superheroes to accept governnt supervision, which was completely contrary to Knight’s basic principles.
As the chief ‘anti-governnt’ superhero, Knight not helping Steve was already him going easy on Tony as much as possible.
If that happened, Tony would beco part of the superhero ‘minority.’
Most of the ti, the minority beca equivalent to traitors.
The governnt and the public weren’t the only ones paying attention to the rift in the Avengers.
The PDD, the Justice League, New SHIELD and Afterlife, which had a large number of extraordinary combatants, were the silent majority.
The Dark Knight had already made it clear to these parties not to get involved, and anyone else who wanted to fish in troubled waters wouldn’t get the chance.
The leaders of these various organizations privately reached an agreent with Knight to prevent their people from getting involved.
At the sa ti, they paid close attention to their own situations.
Those who jumped out even after their leader gave the order might not be bad people, but they would definitely be unstable elents.
Arrangents would definitely have to be made for these people later, whether they were transferred or demoted. In short, they wouldn’t be given a chance to assu a leadership position and cause internal conflict.
Even if Tony lost this ti, he would at most be branded as having failed as the leader of the Avengers, and not a ‘sinner’ who caused a divide between the superhumans.
It could be said that in order to help his ‘skills manufacturing machine,’ Luke had already done his best to curb the extent of the conflict.
But he had no idea what the outco would be. He just hoped that the arrogant tycoon would be able to co out of things on his own.
Looking at Tony’s depressed expression, Luke sighed inwardly. “You should hurry. It’s best to clear the air between you and Steve.”
Tony didn’t hear the implied aning in Luke’s words. He simply made a sound of acknowledgnt and then hung up.
Am I really in the wrong? That was what he thought. Otherwise, why didn’t even Bruce support him?
For a mont, the thought of retirent that he had been suppressing for the past two years resurfaced.
He was now close to 50 years old, had a wife and daughter, and could study all sorts of alien technology when he was free.
The Justice League and New SHIELD were gradually growing stronger, and the Avengers didn’t have to shoulder all the pressure.
It seed that he really had to calmly talk things out with Steve. If that didn’t work, the Avengers could only learn from the Justice League and go into partial hiding.
With mixed feelings, Tony landed at the entrance of the base.
Looking at the Quinjet parked not far from the doors, he knew that he had found the right place.
Entering the open tal doors of the base, he saw Steve and Bucky moving stealthily up ahead.
Tony tapped lightly on his armor.
Steve and Bucky both turned around and were surprised to see him.
Tony flipped open his mask and slowly walked over. “Knight sent so information. I know that Barnes was set up by Helmut Zemo.”
Steve and Bucky were relieved.
To be honest, fighting Tony was really troubleso.
It was very hard to break through his defenses, and he couldn’t be killed directly. It couldn’t be any better if they could resolve the misunderstanding.
Tony didn’t pay much attention to Bucky. He didn’t have a good impression of this guy. He simply looked at Steve. “After we catch Zemo, I want to talk to you in private.”
Steve nodded. “Okay.”
After a few simple words, Tony and Steve, these old comrades, fell back into old habits and quickly snuck into the base.
Behind them, Luke looked to the south as a Wakandan fighter plane descended swiftly. He couldn’t help but shake his head before he walked into the base.
T’Challa had also arrived.
The father of this Wakandan prince, T’Chaka, had specially gone to the United Nations to give a speech.
Caught up in the explosion caused by Zemo to fra Bucky, T’Chaka suffered a severe head injury and almost died on the spot.
It was Natasha who knew about Tony’s private dealings with Wakanda, and who had imdiately used a small dose of Life 1 to save T’Chaka’s life.
However, the old king suffered so irreversible damage to his brain. It wasn’t to the point of being paralyzed, but he had to retire early.
Naturally, T’Challa didn’t want to let off the criminal who had almost blown up his father, so he chased and fought Bucky, who had been frad, before he joined Tony’s team and fought at the airport in Berlin.
Luke had naturally sent him the truth under Knight’s na.
Leaving Zemo to T’Challa was the right choice.
Natasha had saved the old king of Wakanda this ti, and Luke left the would-be murderer to T’Challa in exchange for removing the Mind Stone in Vision’s head.
Wakanda was currently a secluded nation. Without these two favors, it would definitely take a year or two to get the Stone removed.
Luke didn’t want to waste ti. It was better to use favors to get things done.
As Luke was thinking this, Tony and the other two had already run into Zemo.
Contrary to their expectations, Zemo had no intention of activating the dormant soldiers at all. Instead, he blew up the dormant soldiers.
He stood behind the observation window and openly revealed why he had frad Bucky.
Zemo’s family had been unlucky.
In the Sokovian incident, his house outside the city center hadn’t collapsed, but toward the end, when Ultron’s robots tried to escape, Zemo’s father, wife, and daughter were caught up in it, and died.
Zemo wasn’t a scher. He was just soone who had nothing else to live for except revenge.
He had looked for Bucky because Bucky had a secret that could tear the Avengers apart.
Tony’s expression gradually changed as Zemo played a video from 7pm on 16 December 1991.
Looking at the blurry image of a car hitting the side of the road, he felt a sense of familiarity.
When he saw a white-haired old man struggling to get out of the car, Tony suddenly understood — this was a video of his parents dying in a car crash.
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